Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-04-21

Pos.odices established: Dakota: Frank
lin. Lake couaty. Iowa: Slater. Story
county. ~Postmlsters eommissioned-Da-
kota: Fargo, w. g. Judd. Iowa: Maquo-
exander; Spencer, c. +. Buckley; Batavia,
II. L. Ogden; Mineral Ridge, n. Peterson.
Fourth.elass postmasters appointed
Minnesota: Tower, n. J. Benson. Dako-
ta: Canoya. II. Snyder; Hurley. NJ. c. Rob
inson; Stephen, p. Poehm; Williamsport,
II. ID. Connor Wisconsin: Cortland, Z. ].
Bosse; Franklin, j. ziesel; Victory Mr..
Billiard.
The commissioners Of the general land Of
flee has Cancelled 2S presumption entries. and
held for cancellation 20 others in the 0ber-
lin (kan.) land district. 1t is charged that
the entries we're made bya prominent attor-
ncy for the benefit OF prominent cattIemen
when the lands were transferred through
a fictitious intermediate assignee. About
40 other cases of like character and against
the same parties are awaiting action.
The New York Eastern Methodist con.
ference discussed and defeated a resolu-
ton endorsing the Prohibition party.
Three of the bodies OF victims Of the late
river accident have been recovered, Higgins,
Pix and Hannah-and shipped to Spokane
Falls. Two were in good condition. but
the body OF Hannah was so disfigured as
TO be hardly recognizable.
The WacoIta kennels OF st. Paul have
scored first in the mastiff class with their
magnificent dog, Wacouta Nap, at thedog
show in progress at Pittsburg, Pa. A great
deal of curiosity has been excited to see
this mastif, as he is the brother OF the
famous English prize winner, Albert Victor,
Nha Il runsA 1oU 81 49, k.Aa1 n.A- A4.y.
Wacouta Nap is now in fine condition, and
shows to better advantage than he did at
Newark and providence, where he was
awarded second, As he had only been a
few days in this country before he was
shown, it was a severe test to put any dog
to. With all this, however, he was award.
ed first at Buffalo.
The Brotherhood OF Brakemen on the
Panhandle road say they will defend the
prisoners. but help convict them should
proof OF guilt be produced. They intend
to proceed against the company for dam
ages il the charges against any OF the men
under arrest are no sustained.
1t is reported from Milwaukee that a
Milwaukee syndicate has purchased o
acres OF land at Grand Marais, where they
will lay out n town, and that the contract
was let in st. Paul recently for the build
ing OF a railroad from Grand Marais to
connect with the Canadian Pacific and
with the iron field, work to begin by July
l next and be completed by July !, 1888.
The executive board OF Chicago Turner's
nave been deposed for displaying sympathy
for the condemned anarchists.
Gov. Ross OF Texas has vetoed the bill
which postponed for one year the collec-
ton Of taxes in the drouth district, en-
AAo.fn8 az.,.- IT,
declares that the bill violates the federal
constitution, as IL applies only TO resident
citizens in Texas. The property Of non
residents and Foreigners was not exempted.
A vigilance COMMITTEES from Brown
county. Nebraska, overlook two young
horse thieves near Sargent and shot and
killed one oi then-Joseph A~rnold-and
captured the other, James Bohan. One oil
the v~igilantes was dangerously shot.
j. r. Dunlap, who was captured at Dem
nison, Ohio, in connection with the rob.
berries on the Panhandle railroad said. He
could give the names OF all the men impli-
Gated on the Pittsburg division. but was
afraid TO 10 so as they would kill him.
There was no organization among the rob-
bers, and no regular place OF work. Each
crew worked by itself. The fences were To-
Gated in New Philadelphia, Dennison, Steu-
b~enville, Cincinnati and Pittsburg and also
in Columbus.
President Cleveland has definitely ac-
cepted an invitation to attend the Pied
mont fair.
In the mail received at the navy depart.
ment from the Asiatic station was an ex-
tract from a Nagasaki journal containing
n detailed account OF the catastrophe on
the Island of Ikeshima on March 4. through
the bursting of a shell fired from the United
States steamship Omaha resulting in the
death oil four japanese and the wounding
OF seven Others. Capt. Seliridge, OF the
Omaha, was suspended and ordered home
and is o at San Francisco.
w. +. Curtis, the welEknown Washing.
ton correspondent, writing to the Chicago
News. explains how many bits Of sensa-
tional and often scandalous gossip are bas-
ed on the fiimsiest possible foundation, or
manufactured out Of whole cloth by un.
principled authors. The story that Secre-
tary Bagard was to marry a handsome
young lady clerk in the state department
is utterly false. II was started by an irate
female employee recently discharged, and
first published by q woman writer for a Phil
adelphia paper. Mr.. Bayard is stu in the
deepest mourning for the death Of his wife
and daughter only a little more than ayear
ago. He does not go ont MT all, and re.
ceives only his most intimate friends. He
has never exchanged half n dozen words
with the young lady clerk whom he is ac-
cused OF intending to marry, and when he
first saw the publication he did notknow
there was such a person in the department.
The Pennsylvania senate finally passed
the joint resolution proposing n woman
suffrage constitution al amendment; yeas,
81; nays. 10. The ladies gallery VS.
crowded during the vote They were quite
enthusiastic, and upon the announcement
that the resolution had passed they arose
and waved their handkerchieis Senator
Harlan, the female suffrage champion, was
warmly congratulated on his victory. The
senate also adopted the resolution de-
nouucing the coercion bill now pending be-
fore the British parliament, n extending
the sympathy OF the Pennsylvania senate
to Gladstone and Parnell in their efforts to
secure the rights OF Ireland.
The following general order has been is
sued by the war department: BY direction
OF the secretary, the military post situated
on the north shore OF Ceur d'AleDe. lake,
Idaho, now called Fort Ceur d Alene. will
hereafter be known and designated as Fort
Sherman, in honor OF Gen. Sherman, by
whom the site was selected.
Charles Mitchell, the English prize fighter,
arrived in New York on the White Star
steamer Arabic. He expressed himself as
ready to meet any ofthe frst-class fighters.
either with bare knuckles to a finish or a
stipulated number OF rounds with gloves.
Sullivan is the man whom he prefers to
fight, but he is equally ready to meet Kill
rain or Cardiff.
NJ. A. Burbank, a hotel keeper at Pitts
field, Mass. and William Marshall, acorn
panion, ave been arrested on complaint
OF Mrs. Mary McGreldy. aged twenty-five,
OF New Lennox. Tho woman charges that
the men took her to a house out Of town,